Yes, I guess it has been that long since our last post. Now that Willa is walking and getting closer to running, our evenings are very busy while she's awake and then we get ready for tomorrow when she goes to bed.
I feel like new things happen everyday, it's hard to keep track of it all. I'll try to do a separate post of Willa's words, but it's safe to say her vocabulary is definitely expanding each day. Here's a quick list of what she's doing now:
- Walking - walking fast, climbing stairs (up and down), chasing cats
- Talking - I would say she has at least 25 words. If I do that separate post and list her words, we'll see where she's at
- Potty-ing - We bought her a potty chair and set it up in the new bathroom. We put her on it most regularly in the mornings and she pees most mornings. We aren't putting too much focus on it but would like to start introducing the potty to her. She says pee-pee and can make a "pssss" sound (smiling all the while, of course).
- Eating - we've had some challenging eating days because she's just too busy to want to eat. It has been fun to watch her learn to use utensils, though. In the last week or so, she's able to feed herself with a spoon and still have bits of food on the spoon when it gets to her mouth! She fed herself baby peas on the spoon tonight. We clap and make a big deal anytime the food stays on the spoon and gets into her mouth. She claps and says "yay", too, to join in the fun.
- Bathing - Willa loves our new bath tub. It's mostly her tub - she likes to lay on her belly and put her face in the water, splash with her hands and washcloth, and use cups to fill and spill water.
- Dancing - She likes to bounce her little hiny! If a good beat comes on the radio, she'll start moving around. We were at a wedding this weekend and she danced at the reception; sometimes she even turns in a circle like a true dancing queen.
- Dressing - Now Willa likes to help pick out her outfits. She's always pointing in her closet to a "doe" (coat, which is actually a sweater but she calls them all the same thing) that she wants to wear. If you see some pictures with sweaters that don't match, you know Willa picked it out. :-) She also knows lots of her body parts now, and particularly loves the eyes and nose. She about pokes your eye out...again, still working on the gentle/careful idea, and in discovering her nose has started picking her nose sometimes. Thrilling.
- Playing - Santa came early to Lombard Street. Willa got a few new toys - I think her favorite is Baby Stella. My mom bought a Baby Stella to keep at their house; Willa liked it so much Santa brought her one to have at home. She puts Baby Stella on her belly and pats her hiny and says ni-ni (night night). Willa hasn't learned gentle yet, though, so she pats poor Stella pretty hard. She loves that baby doll, and the pattern/puzzle game she got. She also got Baby Signing Time DVDs - we watched one yesterday and tonight she was doing a few more signs!
- Signing - She's been doing the sign for "more" for a few months now, but she's also started doing the signs for please, food, sleep, and bath. The DVDs are entertaining (we enjoyed watching and learning the signs, too) and I like that she's learning another language.
- Being a comedian - I think I've mentioned this before, but Willa is a ham in front of others. Our good friend, Marie, got married this weekend and was kind enough to invite Willa to the wedding and reception. She enjoyed herself, particularly at the reception. While we were eating dinner, she walked onto the dance floor by herself and proceeded to wave to people, dance, pull up her dress and point to her belly, do a downward dog yoga pose (hands and feet on the ground and hiny up in the air) and look through her legs to see who was watching, walk around some more and wave and say hi...what are we in store for as she gets older?! Later, though, she was walking a little too fast and fell on the floor. She was okay, but after that she mostly wanted to be held. It was also about 9 or 9:30 by this point, so it was pretty late (her normal bedtime is 8). We were so proud of her good behavior at the wedding and at the rehearsal dinner.
As I mentioned, Santa stopped by our house this past weekend because we won't be waking up at our house on Christmas morning (til next year, anyway). Willa liked ripping the paper sometimes, but then she'd get distracted. I was glad she only had about 10 packages to open for that reason! Christmas should be interesting...
Now for the pictures:
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